a baseball card celebration of the dodgers and the infield of my youth.

29 October 2010

glenn burke ebay auto success!

a big thanks to mrmopar (a sometimes ebay nemesis and holder of a steve garvey collection superior to mine) for giving me a heads up on the recent auction for this autographed copy of a 1978 topps glenn burke card.

i intermittently scan the bay for burke and fellow need for my modest 1978 topps dodger autograph project ed goodson, but i had not come across the auction until curt pointed it out. the first thing i did was compare the image to that of the only other copy i have seen (courtesy of baseball almanac).

close enough for my naive palette. i won the auction and on monday the card was delivered safe and sound.

it's timely in that 'out - the glenn burke story' is on its way to tv next month. it should be interesting as i understand that there is a lot to burke's off the field story that i haven't really seen or heard in any real depth.

on the field, burke debuted for the dodgers in 1976 and was traded to oakland early in the 1978 season for bill north. in between he played in the 1977 postseason for the dodgers, which is where i first took note of him. his lone postseason hit came in game 1 of the world series that year - it was a single with two outs in the 6th and steve garvey was thrown out at home trying to score from first. if memory serves, it was a close play with garvey protesting the call (and in fact, it was, at least according to this news account ).

this is the penultimate card i need to complete the modest 1978 topps dodger autograph project, and it is the one i figured i would never get. let's hope that ed goodson doesn't fall into that category.

Glad you landed it Jim. I have one already, otherwise I may have given you a run for your money. That is not to say I didn't try to land a dupe, but the bidding got a little higher than I wanted to go. I was out before you got your bid in though, so my bid didn't affect the final price.

I just posted a thread on Burke and I have some sample signatures. I shared these with Curtis, the seller, and we both feel the card he sold and you won was likely authentic. Can't explain the missing "e", but I don't think I would sweat it!

let's trade

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let's trade, part 2

i collect dodgers cards, any and all cards featuring steve garvey, ron cey, dave lopes or bill russell, all topps cards of the players who were featured in the 1978 topps set as dodgers, cards featuring dodger stadium, o-pee-chee variations, cards showing memorial patches and/or armbands, and cards showing the double play turn at second base. i am also currently working on my 1971 topps set. i have a lot of cards to trade!